The soul's maladies have their relapses like the body's. What we take for a cure is often just a momentary rally or a new form of the disease.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.

Beauty has its own ways.

Don't need a magic carpet to soar or wings to fly. I simply close my eyes and place my soul against the sky.

We don’t have to tell secrets. We don’t have to talk at all. We could just, you know, kiss . . . and stuff.

If you want to have a well-ordered church, then you have to become well-ordered yourself.

I won’t sell my songs for no TV Ad.

Most authors steal their works, or buy.

Hello,Pepper. It´s been a while," I said. "The last time we met up, you tried to kidnap me, isn´t that right?" Nora (p.303)

Let us watch against PRIDE in every shapepride of intellect, pride of wealth, pride in our own goodness.

Nature doesn't cheat - people do.

These things you did were like prayers; you did them and you hoped they would save you. And for the most part they did. Or something did; you could tell by the fact that you were still alive.